Erik Bais wrote:
Hi Michael,
Nonetheless, the important factor for me is: Will it cost the same amount of money per year? This is "tragedy of the commons" problem, so as long as the cost for holding the PI resource is the same before and after this proposal, I don't have any problems with it.
If it's all of a sudden a lot cheaper, I oppose the change.
Initially the proposal did include a change in the cost for PI IPv6, however it was decided to not include that into this discussion as cost for PI isn't decided within the community but in the AGM meeting.
Having said this, there will be a public discussion behind this to get input from the community to review the cost of specifically PI IPv6 as input for the chairs to take into the AGM meeting.
It wasn't my intention to ask for cheaper PI IPv6, the opposite in fact, I personally think that PI IPv6 should be more expensive than currently especially when the multihoming requirement would be dropped.
We should keep in mind that the RIPE NCC, working (+ charging for its services) according to the policies as agreed by the Community is NOT an internet tax and fund-redistribution entity! Usually, the cost for a particular service is set to reflect the effort in the NCC to provide the registration (and associated) services. There is no way to redistribute a "FIB-entry-surcharge" to whatever or whoever believes to "suffer" from this proposed change in policy.
The proposal as it is, is to have the same requirements for PI IPv6 as one would face if they would signup to become a LIR.
Not really. It would only remove special (and imho artificial to begin with) *operational* requirments (i.e. multi-homing, ASing) from the access to the resource. Registering a prefix in the Resource Registry by the RIPE NCC should require the same effort as IPv4 PI and the current IPv6 PI. Actually - it should become cheaper - effortwise - because the NCC can drop the superficial and ineffective "checks" made after assignment, to assess if the MH requirements were or still are met.
Kind regards, Erik Bais
Wilfried.